The Plays of Christopher Marlowe and George Peele: Rhetoric and Renaissance SensibilityUniversal-Publishers, 1999 - 358 Seiten This work is concerned with the evaluation of rhetoric as an essential aspect of Renaissance sensibility. It is an analysis of the Renaissance world viewed in terms of literary style and aesthetic. Eight plays are analysed in some detail: four by George Peele: The Battle of Alcazar, Edward I, David and Bethsabe, and The Arraignment of Paris; and four by Christopher Marlowe: Dido Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine Part One, Dr Faustus and Edward II. The work is thus partly a comparative study of two important Renaissance playwrights; it seeks to establish Peele in particular as an important figure in the history and evolution of the theatre. Verbal rhetoric is consistently linked to an analysis of the visual, so that the reader/viewer is encouraged to assess the plays holistically, as unified works of art. Emphasis is placed throughout on the dangers of reading Renaissance plays with anachronistic expectations of realism derived from modern drama; the importance of Elizabethan audience expectation and reaction is considered, and through this the wider artistic sensibility of the period is assessed. |
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... achieving the sufficient thoroughness of analysis. For the same reason, we have confined ourselves to an analysis of four plays in each writer's canon: Peele's The Battle of Alcazar, Edward I, David and Bethsabe, and The Arraignment of ...
... achieve the required aim.'4 It was an essentially public technique, therefore, rather than a method of private expression. It helped, according to him, subsume 'the individual subject within a social unit.'5 This view of rhetoric was ...
... achieve this godlike power fall instead into mere glibness, which is both silly and offensive. They pile up a meaningless heap of words and expressions without any discrimination, and thus obscure the subject they are talking about, as ...
... achieve a simple human pathos far surpassing anything of its kind in the classical tragedies. This is sometimes achieved in prose, as in the following passage from The Famous Victories of Henry V. Henry V has entered to his father ...
... achieved in the usual way by means of apposition and subordinate clauses. Through the imperative 'behold' he exhorts us to be aware of the 'great aide' which Abdelmelec derives from Amurath. The two monosyllables, linked through ...
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David and Bethsabe and the Clash between Ethos and Delectatio | 100 |
The Arraignment of Paris Court Ritual and the Resolution | 134 |
Christopher Marlowe Critical Approaches | 164 |
Dido Queen of Carthage Mortals versus Gods and the Ethos | 197 |
Ethical SelfCreation in Tamburlaine Part One | 223 |
Doctor Faustus and the Tragedy of Delight | 266 |
Edward II The Emergence of Realism and the Emptiness | 303 |
Conclusion | 323 |
Bibliography | 341 |
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